Oppian
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Oppian (, ; ), also known as Oppian of Anazarbus, of Corycus, or of Cilicia, was a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet during the reign of the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, who composed the Halieutica, a five-book didactic epic on fishing.
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- Born
- fl. 2nd cent.
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Oppianou Anazarbeōs Halieutikōn biblia V. Kynēgetikōn biblia IV
- De venatione lib.IIII. De piscatu lib V.
- Paraphrasis eis ta kynēgetika
- La caccia e la pesca
- Alieuticon, sive De piscibus, libri quinq[ue] è Graeco traducti
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Recent publications · Crossref
3 total works indexed
- Oppian, Colluthus, Tryphiodorus, with an English translation by A.W. Mair
· 1928 · cited 5x
- Cynegetica, or The Chase
· 1928 · cited 1x
- Halieutica, or Fishing
· 1928
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Quotes
- “Ἔθνεά τοι πόντοιο πολυσπερέας τε φάλαγγαςπαντοίων νεπόδων, πλωτὸν γένος Ἀμφιτρίτης,ἐξερέω, γαίης ὕπατον κράτος, Ἀντωνῖνε·ὅσσα τε κυματόεσσαν ἔχει χύσιν, ᾗχί θ’ ἕκασταἐννέμεται, διερούς τε γάμους διεράς τε γενέθλαςκαὶ βίον ἰχθυόεντα καὶ ἔχθεα καὶ φιλότηταςκαὶ βουλάς, ἁλίης τε πολύτροπα δήνεα τέχνηςκερδαλέης, ὅσα φῶτες ἐπ’ ἰχθύσι μητίσαντοἀφράστοις· ἀΐδηλον ἐπιπλώουσι θάλασσαντολμηρῇ κραδίῃ, κατὰ δ’ ἔδρακον οὐκ ἐπίοπταβένθεα καὶ τέχνῃσιν ἁλὸς διὰ μέτρα δάσαντοδαιμόνιοι.”
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Oppian (, ; ), also known as Oppian of Anazarbus, of Corycus, or of Cilicia, was a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet during the reign of the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, who composed the Halieutica, a five-book didactic epic on fishing.
==Biography== Oppian states that he is from 'the city of Hermes' and the 'city at the promontory of Sarpedon'. This has been supplemented by information from the biographies attached to medieval manuscripts, which state that his birthplace was Caesarea (now known as Anazarbus) or Corycus in Cilicia, or Corycus according to the Suda. All these cities were in the Roman province of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey.